Stephen Sondheim’s 1994 musical is about that most intimate thing: romantic love. It feels all the more appropriate, then, for it to be staged on the up-close-and-personal stage of the Hope Mill.
At any one time, Dean John-Wilson’s Giorgio is either stationed in a provincial town with Ruthie Henshall’s Fosca or on leave in Milan with Kelly Price’s Clara. But when these love rivals sing at once, they are so close at hand they seem to claim his attention physically as well as emotionally. You can see why he can’t get them out of his head.
